Where to put my Affiliate Tracking Code??

[danwebman]

Company Name: Payne-Mason
ZenCart: v1.3.7

I have the following javascript code for some affiliate tracking and I'm having problems identifying where and what file I need to insert this into:

<!-- Payne-Mason Tag Begins Here -->

<script language='Javascript'>

document.write( '<scr'+'ipt language="Javascript" src="' );

if( document.location.toString().indexOf( 'https://' ) != -1 ){ document.write( 'https' ); } else { document.write( 'http' ); }

document.write( '://hits.affiliatetraction.com/cgi-bin/convert?js=1&offer=4656&amount=[DYNAMIC AMOUNT]&uid=[UNIQUE TRANSACTION ID]"><\/scr'+'ipt>' );

</script>

<noscript><img src='http://hits.affiliatetraction.com/cgi-bin/convert?offer=4656&amount=[DYNAMIC AMOUNT]&uid=[UNIQUE TRANSACTION ID]' border=0 width=1 height=1></noscript>

<!-- Payne-Mason Tag Ends Here -->

Any insight would be awesome... everywhere I've tried to insert it...it messes up the file/page I inserted it into...

[Neon Phoenix]

It will go in the tpl_main_page.php located in your template folder.

http://www.yoursite.com/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php

[danwebman]

Phoenix you are AWESOME! Thank you!! It works! I just don't know what the Dynamic Tags are for [Customer ID #] and [Transaction #] for the order? Any idea what those are so the script can identify and send that info through? Thanks Again!

[chuck]

Actually, if you're tracking only from the checkout-success page, you need to take it out of the tpl-main-page file (since that's used on *every* page), and put it into a copy of tpl_footer.php that you store in a new folder, like this: /includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/checkout_success/tpl_footer.php
Then you can substitute those dynamic pieces for the data available on that page.

You can see an example of that on the JROX JAM website where it talks about integration with Zen Cart.

[danwebman]

Does anyone know what the code or tag for Transaction ID (order #) and also Transaction ammount (subtotal $ for the order) ... I have a software code to track the order and need to imput these 2 things..

[DYNAMIC AMOUNT]
[UNIQUE TRANSACTION ID]

I have tested it a couple times but keep inserting the wrong identifiers

[DrByte]

chuck's suggestion above will point you to code that does the same sort of thing for an afffiliate manager already integrated for Zen Cart.


Namely:
- $order_summary['commissionable_order']
- $order_summary['order_number']
respectively.

[danwebman]

Yeah, I looked into Chuck's suggestion and tried it too, but unless you are using the Affiliate Software he referances... it is no good. I am using a different kind. Are you suggesting all I need to do is put [commisionable_order] and [order_number] in the tags for my purposes? Thanks,

Dan

[DrByte]

If you do it on tpl_footer.php in a checkout_success override folder, then you would use the variable names exactly as I mentioned them:

$order_summary['commissionable_order']
and
$order_summary['order_number']

[danwebman]

Thanks, I only have one more question for this thread,
Do I have to make any adustments to the code or module, or if I put a /checkout_success new folder with a tpl.footer.php file (with the inputs you reccomended... will the zencart automatically figure out that there is a new folder and file it needs to read? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I am just learning about .php and zencart. I am hoping someday soon I will be able to help others like I am being helped!

p.s.- my affiliate code asks for me to adjust/imput : [UNIQUE TRANSACTION ID] into the code--should I put just the ['order_number'] in there or the whole [$order_summary['order_number']]

[DrByte]

ZenCart: v1.3.7

Seems I missed the fact that you're talking about v1.3.7.
The specific variables I gave you are for 1.3.8, as a number of enhancements were added in that version to give better tracking capability.

For v1.3.7 you'll need:

$commissionable_order (for the amount)
$insert_id (for the order number)


You'd use them like this:

<?php echo $commissionable_order; ?>
<?php echo $insert_id; ?>